“You should never proceed with a business venture before
doing extensive planning, and a website is no different. If you wish to publish
a successful website you need to lay the groundwork before you even code your
first page. With the right planning and foresight you will in a much better
position to power your site to the top once it is built.”
Just like a business preproduction is needed to help make
the website successful and you can’t just go into making a website straight
away otherwise you won’t have a good idea on what you want the website to look
like and what you want on it, and with planning and preproduction it can make
designing the website a whole lot easier compared to if you didn’t plan as you
have information ready and an idea on the design. Preproduction for a website
design is extremely important for making a website and also working with
clients, one thing which could be important for preproduction on a website
design is getting feedback on your preproduction work for the design of the
website so you could do a questionnaire, getting this feedback from
questionnaires or surveys helps change the sites design
Preproduction is needed for a website so you can get to
understand certain things like, how the website will be presented, what your
website is going to be about, what information the website is going to have
etc, and all of this can be found and planned in different ways, and they are
all needed to make sure that the website makes sense, that the design you have
is suitable to what the website is about and also to make sure that it is
suitable for your TA (Target Audience)
Preproduction can be extremely important for your
website, because preproduction will be the difference between a good website
design and a bad one, and without preproduction you won’t have a general idea
on what the website will look like, whether or not it will have certain
pictures or video on the website. this is because if you go straight into the
design of the website you could end up making mistakes and changing a lot of it
before you get your final website and you may also not have all the information
that you need for the site or have a straight idea on what you want it to look
like which is another reason why you could change a lot on the website before
you get your final website finished, whereas if you do preproduction for a
website then you will be able to make it suit your target audience, and you
will have the design/information ready for when you make the site, and although
it takes time it’s more important as you are able to make sure that everything
you have ready is good for the website and will also help decide how your
website will look.
(Site pre-production):
Before making the website preproduction is needed to make
sure you have a website planned, one example of preproduction is a site map:
A site map is used to show all the pages on your website
and how they are like each other, this can help with the focus on the website
or what it will be based on. In the site map you can have all of the pages and
what page they have to come from to get to that specific page, so this could be
important as it helps make the design of the website as you can see where the
pages will go or what other pages can lead on from that one. Site maps are good
preproduction to help with the website design as you can see what you want to
have on each page of the site and it also shows on which page you want certain
parts on
Here is an example of what a site map can look like:
Another way of preproduction for a website is designing
the website, this can be done by sketching each page or the layout for the
pages and this can be done in different ways e.g. on paper using a pen, using
software on a computer such as Photoshop, making a design for your website is
important so you can plan where everything will go and where each bit of
information, pictures, or just any text will be put on each page, making this
design can also help you decide the style of the website. A way you can think
about the design of your site or how you would like it to look is by doing
research like finding other websites on the internet that relate to your style
for a website/ what your website will be based on and this is the same as
making the design of the website for importance, so looking at other peoples
websites can help you decide what your website can look like and you can just
get general ideas on what you want to have on your website/what you want it to
look like, you could also make a draft website just
Info on web design:
Something else that could come under planning the design
of the website is also if you want any media on the site such as pictures,
logos or audio this is important because if you are working with a client then
you will need to know and understand what they would like on the site, this
helps to make sure the information you have for the website relates to the
client, however adding in these images, audio, video etc. It will also affect
the design so when planning what media to have on the site it could change what
the design of the website will look like, this is important for preproduction
because you can sort out all the media you want on the site and design around
it whereas if you didn’t plan out before it could be difficult to change the
design whilst you are adding it all in, this also links in with how it is
easier to have it all planned out before so it helps make it easier when it
comes to designing the final website.
The 8 steps of web design:
These steps are
quoted from the website:
1. “Figure
out what the focus of the website will be.
2. What
specific features do you want in the website?
3. Create
a list of sections for your website and give them a hierarchy of importance.
4. Write
out your content and finalize it.
5. Find
a style / look that meets your website’s and your industry’s requirements.
6. Build
the website.
7. Evaluate
the website and make the required changes / updates.
8. Go
live – register a domain, find a host, upload the website.”
As you can see from these steps that preproduction is
important as only at step 6 do you start to actually build the website, until
that point the other work is based on what the site will be about, what will be
on the website such as information and the content and what the style will be
for the website.
About building/designing a website:
Something else that could be important for the
preproduction of the website is the interface and how people can get around the
website, the reason this is important is just so you can make sure that the
site is easy to get around and so it’s easy to use, this could also relate to
your target audience and how the interface will look because if the target
audience is for adults then you aren’t going to make the interface almost
childlike and this will affect your design of the website because of the Target
audience and how this will affect how the UI(user interface) looks and works.
Preproduction on a website and how important it is also
relates to the group project that we have just done in college, so for our
website we decided to do about catering, we did a bit on preproduction for the
site before we designed the website where we looked at other websites for
inspiration on how our website should look, and maybe what kind of information
we should put on our website, this was important because we actually found some
good designs and were able to figure out how to incorporate some of those
ideas/ designs into our final website, we also looked at finding pictures for
the website so that on each page on the site there would be pictures and also
some background images to suit catering so pictures of food, so us doing our
project helped us see that without preproduction designing a website from
scratch would be extremely difficult, and without it you would have difficulty
coming up with ideas, so not only is preproduction for a website design good to
help decide what will be on the website, but it can also be very useful to
decide how a website can look and what kind of design it will have, and also
how it will help design the UI for the site.
Overall there are loads of different ways for preproduction
to be done for a website and they are also all important for different reasons
but they all help to make up a good website design, and without website
preproduction it would be difficult to make a good website that suits your TA
and what your website is meant to be focused on, also because without
preproduction work on designing the website you may become stuck on what to do,
how to design the site and so on.
-Daniel Sherman
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